Be still my heart. Coming down to the wire here. The Niners, looking to keep the quest for 6 alive, have looked unbeatable and unwatchable like clockwork. Every 3 weeks they lay a fresh turd after coing up roses for 2 weeks. Inconsistency is their only constant. The D has been dominating until it hasn’t. The offense has been record-breaking and TV-breaking. The run game is here and gone. The passing game remains an enigma no matter who is behind center.
Green Bay on the other hand seems to be riding the wave of solid football, going 10-2 in their last 12 games after a 2-3 start. They appear to be peaking at the right time despite their loss to Minn on the road to knock them out of the 2 seed. Aaron Rodgers is Aaron Rodgers. Outlandish numbers (4,295 / 39 / 8), and some of his throws last weekend were flat crazy. Throwing lasers on the run for 35 yards, the usual. They even seems to have discovered a diamond in the parking lot with the addition of RB DuJuan Harris.
Still, GB has a defense that really isn’t all that impressive. They give up yards in the air and they give up yards on the ground. Their WRs are banged up, and they give up a lot of sacks. The Niners at least got the break they needed. They were pretty gassed after that marathon NE game, and staggered down the stretch. The effectiveness of Justin Smith remains a question, and the run game is something that needs to get going early to provide a lift to the play-action passing game.
But still and all, I like the Niners chances. I think the Niners can get to Rodgers with their base pass rush. Disguise a blitz here and there to force a turnover or 2. I think the offense should be able to get the job done vs Green Bay’s D.
Forty Niners Forever 
The Niners will beat the Falcons by three touchdowns. Then they’ll beat the Patriots by three touchdowns. That’s the number. 21. Prime Time. The Inconvenient Truth. 21 Don’t you forget it. I laugh at the Falcons. Please. Mike Smith? Please. Sure, the Patriots are tough…. if you fear cupcakes. If sprinkles make you all a twitter, you fear the Patriots. But if you’re not afraid of cupcakes, we got this. We just brought number 6 to SF and Harbaugh did it in year two. I’m not even sweating. If you’re a betting man, you bet the 49ers big. They can’t set the spread at 20. They just can’t. The advertisers would all walk away. Handicapping and advertising are directly related. But you know this already. You aren’t dum.
Del – regarding all your talk about Peyton – you hitched your wagon to a loser. Deal with it. Peyton Manning was consistently owned by the Patriots and Brady when Manning was with the Colts. Manning won the Super Bowl only because he played against Rex Grossman and the Chicago Bears. When he went up against a good team in the Saints, he threw arguably the worst pick 6 in Super Bowl history. Manning is good, but he’s not great. Forget all the MVPs and all the Pro Bowls. How many Super Bowl rings does he own? One. That’s it. For as long as that guy’s played, and with all the talent he’s had around him, Peyton Manning hasn’t had that much success. And it showed yesterday. He threw, yet again, another crucial pick. And don’t give me this…. “He’s older now,” or “It was cold outside,” or “He didn’t let Jacoby get past him.” Peyton Manning has a lot of Brett Favre in him. Manning has been around for years with a lot of talent around him and he’s only bested Rex Grossman to get one ring. Ouch.
And yes, I’d rather have Manning than Alex Smith, but when we didn’t get him I accepted that Harbaugh had a plan (despite being kicked off Facebook for “taunting” Jim Harbaugh for his poor decision to resign Alex Smith). You made a joke for a long, long time – hitching your wagon to a loser. Now take the criticism and deal with it you imbecile.
Well said Spitblood and very accurate.For as long as Peyton has been in the league with his.stellar.stats and machine like precision,reading Defenses and scanning the whole field for five different recievers,and so on ,He has ONE Freaking Ring.Oh by the way ties him with FREAKIN TRENT NUMNUTTS DILFER.Yeah great company to be with!!!!
Have we moved on with Kaep to the Championship game Dennis???As Peyton cries.at home with Eli and Archie
You’re all going to want to read this. This could be my finest post ever. I’ll set the crazy aside for one moment.
The 49ers are going to win the Super Bowl, and here’s why.
Jim Harbaugh is currently revolutionizing NFL offenses like Bill Walsh once did. It’s not a coincidence that Harbaugh drafted LaMicheal James and Colin Kaepernick. And it’s just icing on the cake that Crabtree was a Red Raider. And where did Jim Harbaugh come from recently? That’s right. College. What Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman are doing is they are identifying that the rest of the NFL can’t defend college plays IF you get the play calling right. Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman are basically taking the Oregon Ducks offense, sprinkling in a lot of pistol, and they’re also using a power run game along with the Tim Tebow / Urban Meyer read option.
Who brought the read option to the NFL? Tebow. But Alex Smith started copying Tim Tebow in the NFC Championship game. Greg Roman has stated, “I hate the copy cat component of the NFL,” but Greg is copying college football and putting it all together in a way the NFL has no clue how to defend. And did you watch the Seattle / Falcons game? The Seahawks were running a lot of the same plays the 49ers run. The Seattle Seahawks were copying the 49ers’ offense. Russell Wilson didn’t start running the read option until Kaep started running it effectively when Smith was still the starting qb.
So Harbaugh and Roman move away from the Alex Smith ball control football, and they go college spread with the Tebow read option, the Nevada Pistol, and a lot of the LaMicheal James Oregon Ducks offense. I wonder if James was consulting the 49ers on how to run certain aspects of the Ducks’ offense.
Regardless. We know our defense with or without Justin Smith is Super Bowl caliber. It’s always been whether or not the offense could hold its head up. But instead of Harbaugh and Kaep going conventional, Kaep and Harbaugh embraced the college game and it will win the 49ers their sixth Super Bowl. Do you think Mike Nolan will be able to defend our offense? NO CHANCE. Bill Belicheat couldn’t. Lovie Smith couldn’t. Dom Capers couldn’t.
Jim Harbaugh, Greg Roman, LaMicheal James, Colin Kaepernick are right now educating the NFL. Sprinkle in a little “old school,” offense with Gore and Moss, and it’s almost impossible to defend this team. And do you really think defensive coordinators are going to catch up with only two week left in the season? Ron Jaworski was right. Jim Harbaugh had something up his sleeve, and it’s a combination of several different college spread attacks. And Roman and Harbaugh have already found the players to run the college / morph / spread attack with an amazing running attack.
I’ll bet anyone the 49ers will win the Super Bowl. I’m that confident. Did you see what we did to New England on Sunday night a while ago? If it wasn’t for the team going soft in the 3rd and 4th quarters, we would have dominated the Patriots. Belicheat isn’t going to be able to pull a defense together for THIS offense in two weeks. Forget about it.
What’ll happen is that the 49ers will win the Super Bowl, and then the rest of the league will spend the entire off season drafting and constructing defenses that can actually defend the 49ers’ college morph spread attack. But it won’t matter. The sixth Lombardi is headed to SF. Let ’em figure it out next off season – Harbaugh will be ahead of the game next year too. Bill Walsh would be proud. Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman are revolutionizing the way offense is played in the NFL.
News for you. The read option was being run in the 1960’s with the Veer and the Wishbone.
Who was Tebow’s coach at Florida? The same guy that coached Alex Smith at Utah, Urban Meyer. Smith ran the same offense at Utah.
Futile in your efforts to revise history.
Chuck – you should bring in some help to attack this post because you’ll be stealing the information off this post for the next two years. LOL.
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Seeing as RGIII ran it from the get-go this year, uh zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
There’s no pistol in RGIII’s game. And there’s no Oregon Ducks influence in Shanahan’s offense. RGIII runs a read option with a stretch play that sets up the play action. Did you watch the Redskins this year, Chuck? You’ll catch on to what I’m layin’ down….. eventually. LMAO.
But by all means, carry on.
What happened to setting the crazy aside?
Did you mention pistol? You were talking read option somewhere. I didn’t read your latest tome. I’m waiting for the after school special starring Leif Garrett..
Flavor 12th man also aced the test this weekend but 4-0 is a hell of a turn around
Man, yes you have 7 wins now. I wrote that before the NE game, so yer tied w/ Alleykat fer the lead I believe.
Sux cause I think the skins win if RG3 didn’t get re injured in the first quarter, up by 14. Shanny was an ass leaving him in after the first half.
Niners over the Falcons and Baltimore over NE for me next week.
Yeah that did suck
12th..Sucks for me as well.When Denver’s secondary decided to take a siesta with 40 seconds left,depriving me of a “Perfect 8-0”
Yeah it does Kat. Close but no cigar.
Man you have 7 wins as does Alleykat. I posted that before the NE game so you two (and everyone but Shaman) picked up one more:
“You and 12th man have 7 wins. Del Mar, Nipper and Grumpy have 6. Good job men. Rest of us have 5 or less. (Flavor has 4)
Ok updated. Start making yer calls for the NFC and AFC Championships.
I have Man and Grumpy and Barley (except Sea ain’t going) so who do you like in the AFC Barley?
I’m going with SF and Balt per Man and Grumpy. But hey goddamint I made the SF all by my widow self. Capice?
The smart money will be on NE. Niners are 3.5 point favs over Falcons, can’t wait to see how Harbs plays the “no respect” card with that.
According to Niner Nation that makes the Niners the biggest road NFCCG favs in 30 years.
He can make them read John Clayton. Yuck, yuck.
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We match up extremely well against ATL, IMO. Their OL is not that great. We can put pressure on Matty Lice. We can stop the run (when we try). The only true weapons that might give us some hiccups are Jones & White. Their D? Seriously? They can’t stop our O. Only WE can stop our O.
Sure, it’s a road game, loud, blah blah blah, but the only real worry I might have is breaking this “every third game we play like shit” shit. And let’s face it, it’s the fans that pay attention to that — not the players. I smell victory.
I’m 5-3. I went against my gut on the Denver game. But I should have got that one right 🙂 . Fox blew that game badly. Oooops.
Must have been difficult to go against such a massive gut.